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Cole Morgan - Repairing human connection in virtual and hybrid events. The move to virtual events was inevitable, but the speed at which the shift happened broke things.  Cole Morgan is Founder & CEO at StageConnect, a production-grade remote audience interaction software that lets presenters or performers on stage see, hear, and interact with their entire remote audience.  Covid broke the very paradigm of live events; people gathering in a place around a happening. Comfortable or not, event professionals had quite a learning curve when the pandemic hit. Virtual events and hybrid events already existed prior, but now they will continue as the standard. Cole and his company have created a meaningful way to bring remote participants to life, actually put them on stage, and allow them to interact with and truly connect with the presenters, speakers, and performers on the stage. Find Cole Morgan on the web: Website | Instagram | LinkedIn  We appreciate you tuning in to this episode of Your Partner In Success

Olivier Roland dropped out of school at the age of 19 to create his first business, and never looked back. He is now a serial entrepreneur, blogger, YouTuber, startup investor, bestseller author, amateur archaeologist, diver, amateur airplane pilot, globetrotter, international speaker, and philanthropist among his many hats. He has built a global audience of more than 450,000 fans convinced by his method while traveling the world 6 months a year for more than 10 years. When he was in school he often felt out of tune, inadequate, and unmotivated. He thought for a long time that it was a problem and a weakness until he realized that this could be a strength if you play your cards right because being a rebel means being free to break from the traditional model and create your own reality. Olivier is now on a mission to show that you don’t need to be brilliant in school to be brilliant in life. In fact, he believes a lot of Intelligent Rebels are embers ready to blossom to make beautiful fires full of heat and li

What am I Supposed to Do With the Rest of My Life? Until you can clearly and simply articulate what you want, you'll keep drifting. Most of us have no idea what we really want in life. The anxiety over vocation and purpose is something that vexes us until we get clear on what we really want. It takes time, sometimes a lifetime, to get to this point of clarity and singularity. Once you see the beauty in the journey and not just in the usefulness of it, you can begin liberating yourself. You already have everything within you to figure it out; it's a matter of self-awareness and self-discipline. My guest Dr. Tracey Jones is an author, speaker, veteran, publisher, podcaster, and international leadership expert, who currently serves as President of Tremendous Leadership. She picked up the reigns from her father, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones in 2008. Tracey is a passionate lifelong learner whose career spans top positions in four major industries from the military to high tech to defense contracting and publishing.

How to Transform Your Marketing and Turn Customers Into Evangelists Wayne Mullins is a husband, father of four, founder, entrepreneur, and author.  Over the past twenty years, he has had the privilege of scaling multiple companies and helping hundreds of entrepreneurs do the same with their companies. Wayne's marketing agency, Ugly Mug Marketing, has won the praises of some of the leading influencers in the business world such as Neil Patel (Founder of QuickSprout), Chris Voss (Author of Never Split the Difference), and Greg McKeown (Author of Essentialism and Effortless). There’s nothing Wayne loves more than helping entrepreneurs push through limiting beliefs and achieve more than they thought possible. He has personally worked with clients in 91 different industries, from 34 states, and 11 countries. Wayne has been my guest before and you can hear his earlier episode 'Why your marketing isn’t working - and how to fix it!' here. Find Wayne Mullins on the internet: Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | Twitter We

Walter Wolf created The Right Rehab to guide families and individuals through the confusing world of addiction and mental disorder treatment, insurance, and how to pay for it without falling prey to the grifters and imposters who will do anything to get your hard-earned money. Imagine you are awakened by a call at 3 a.m., informing you that your loved one is in crisis due to addiction or mental illness. Maybe he or she has been incarcerated, hospitalized, or left for dead from an overdose. Who would you turn to and what would you do next? Walter Wolf got that very call when his own family member was in crisis. There was no playbook, but Walter knew who to call — a friend in the treatment world who knew exactly what to do. And that got him thinking about the $42 billion unregulated treatment industry with its share of grifters and 1-800 toll-free call centers standing by to promise you anything to get your credit card number. Who protects the uninitiated terrified to the point of doing anything they're told to

Tim Dura, COO of The Polk Institute Foundation joins Host Denise Griffitts To Discuss Tuition-Free Master Practitioner Training Accelerator and Capital Funding Program With the Focus of Graduating Fundable CEO's The Polk Institute Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) is an innovative online enterprise offering a tuition-free Master Practitioner Training Accelerator and Capital Funding program with the focus of graduating fundable CEOS. Tim Dura received two Bachelor of Science degrees from North Dakota State University. The first was in 1974 and the second in 1982. He served as a command fighter pilot in the United States Air Force and, after 22 years of service, retired due to medical issues. In the meantime, Tim started and operated three diverse businesses in entertainment, food service, and aviation. He then began a 20-year teaching career and became involved with teaching entrepreneurship. Tim’s program was extremely successful, sending five businesses to the NFTE National Business Plan Competition in New York City

How to make your company easier to run and immune to competition using 3 specific CEO habits. Simon Severino is the #1 speaker on agile strategy and agile sales. He is an Author, CEO of Strategy Sprints and Host of the Strategy Sprints podcast. He has interviewed powerhouse entrepreneurs like Rita McGrath, David Allen, Nir Eyal, Perry Marshall, Verne Harnish, Brian Kurtz and hundreds more on business, productivity and growth. He helps business owners in SaaS and Services run their company more effectively which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints™ Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon leads a global team of Certified Strategy Sprints™ Coaches that help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints which results in fast execution. As a member of SVBS (Silicon Valley Blockchain Society), he enables cross-stage capital flows and helps minimize execution risks in technology startups. His team is trusted by Google, Consilience Ventures, Roch

Today’s guest, Erin Fults, is a strategist, coach, implementer, and the founder of Acorn Studio, a business coaching and marketing consultancy. Erin passionately believes that healthy, sustainable small businesses can change the world. She helps business owners figure out the next right step to move their business forward and implement simple frameworks that maximize revenue and productivity. As a Storybrand Certified Guide and a Business Made Simple Certified Coach, Erin draws on her background in photography, design, and entrepreneurship to help business owners confidently grow a business they love. Listen to our first episode 'Marketing With The End In Mind' here and today we pick up where we left off. Do you know why most marketing is a waste of money? Are you using a narrative story to position your company as the solution to a problem? Are you honoring the natural stages of a relationship in your marketing? Today Erin will share: Using narrative story to position your company as the solution to a proble

Joe Perrone - Your last business year does not need to be the blueprint for your new business year! Do you lose sleep wondering why your business feels like an underpaid job that you can't quit? Busy and broke, and simply tired of things being that way? Listen in as Joe helps you create free time and eliminate burnout. Listen to our first episode '5 Keys to Time Freedom' here. Joe Perrone is an executive consultant who helps business owners and professionals find freedom from stress and overwhelm. He is an expert in creating free time and eliminating burnout. And he had to learn how to do this because he is also the owner of 2 businesses in New Haven Connecticut – New England Collision and Astro Auto Repair. He was working so hard and so much that he literally put his health on the line. Something had to change! Now Joe spends just 15-20 hours each week on-site and spends the rest of his time working with other business owners who’d like to have more free time, energy and money. His ebook, “5 Keys to Time Fre

When we build products without thinking about the change we want to create in the world, we inflict collateral damage to society. ~ Radhika Dutt Businesses have become increasingly more short-term-oriented since the 1980s. Our approach to innovation has increasingly become short-term driven - we optimize for business results in the near term and it leads to an iteration-led approach to building products. (The example of Boeing's 737Max illustrates the point).  An iteration-led approach leads to product diseases that are often fatal to innovation. My guest Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. She is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions, two of which were companies that she founded. She advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products that create a fundamental change. She is currently Advisor on Product Thinking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore’s fi

Business planning for freelancers, consultants, and other professionals working in the GIG Economy - Not quite a business, not quite a job. Welcome to the gig economy. "In a gig economy, temporary, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend toward hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees. A gig economy undermines the traditional economy of full-time workers who rarely change positions and instead focus on a lifetime career."  Investopedia A leader in business planning, my guest David Brown is here to share methods are designed to help entrepreneurs understand the need for a business plan and remove the fear and pain of writing the plan. An in-demand speaker and consultant, David has helped many clients write their business plan to meet the requirements of lenders and operate their business.  His first book From the Bottom Up: The Ultimate Guide for Business Planning to Profitability is a step-by-step guide for writing a business plan in a no-nonsense format

Marketing with the end in mind. You have to know what kind of business you're building before you decide on how to market it. Do you know why most marketing is a waste of money? Are you using a narrative story to position your company as the solution to a problem? Are you honoring the natural stages of a relationship in your marketing? My guest Erin Fults is a strategist, coach, implementer, and the founder of Acorn Studio, a business coaching and marketing consultancy. Erin passionately believes that healthy, sustainable small businesses can change the world, and she helps owners implement simple frameworks that maximize revenue and productivity so they can confidently grow the business they love. Erin is a Storybrand Certified Guide and a Business Made Simple Certified Coach. The results for her clients are consistent leads, clear marketing strategies, and confident business owners. A right-and-left brainer, Erin’s background includes more than a decade of experience growing a professional photography studi

Joseph Perrone joins Your Partner In Success Radio to share practical tips on how business owners can work more on their business and less in their business. Joe Perrone is an executive consultant who helps business owners and professionals find freedom from stress and overwhelm. He is an expert in creating free time and eliminating burnout. And he had to learn how to do this because he is also the owner of 2 businesses in New Haven Connecticut – New England Collision and Astro Auto Repair. He was working so hard and so much that he literally put his health on the line. Something had to change! Now Joe spends just 15-20 hours each week on-site and spends the rest of his time working with other business owners who’d like to have more free time, energy and money. His ebook, “5 Keys to Time Freedom” has excellent tips for creating days that are fulfilling and anxiety-free. Learn how to how to enjoy more time doing what you truly love, how to slow down in a fast-paced world, and how to take action on your dreams

As an Executive Leader, you have everyone's back. But who's got yours? My guest Simona Spilak is an executive coach to world-class leaders who need a coach and confidant to help them successfully navigate their world of responsibilities, opportunities, and high-stakes decision-making. She has more than 20 years experience working in the corporate world at a senior level and began her own entrepreneurial journey in 2016. Now she spends her time running an executive search firm in the Central and Eastern Europe region and providing executive coaching services to C-suite leaders and executives, a business that she built from scratch. Her insights on how top leaders can navigate their careers and the far-reaching consequences of their decisions - at work and at home - have been featured in various business magazines and podcasts for leaders and entrepreneurs. Simona helps powerful business leaders and executives make a big impact in both their organization and community, without compromising their personal values

"What makes you comfortable can ruin you, and what makes you uncomfortable is the only way to grow." Bill Eckstrom Bill Eckstrom is the CEO and founder of EcSell Institute. Bill’s robust professional career path has encompassed sales, sales leadership, executive leadership with both private and publicly traded companies, and as a founder of start-ups. In 2008, he established EcSell Institute to fill a void he witnessed and personally experienced in the coaching and leadership profession within businesses. Since then, EcSell’s research and improvement programming has been utilized in the athletic and academic worlds, spawning his new start-ups EcSell Sports and EcSell Education in 2019.  Bill co-authored the book 'The Coaching Effect: What great leaders do to increase sales, enhance performance, and sustain growth' which was introduced in April 2019, and has been a best-seller since the first week of its release. Find Bill on the web: Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Personal Website We appreciate you

As the co-founder of GiANT Worldwide, a global technology company that focuses on leadership consultancy, Steve is dedicated to empowering the leader in everyone. Steve Cockram is an international speaker, author, and consultant to top-level executives and leaders around the world. He is a subject matter expert on personality and wiring, organizational leadership, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal communication. Additionally, he is a co-author of the leadership books, 5 Gears, The 100X Leader, and 5 Voices. Steve’s passion for leaders, team communication, change management, and work/life balance is clearly echoed through all three of these books, as well as his speaking and executive consulting.  Listen to Unlocking The Potential Of Those You Lead  Website | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | Amazon Become a Certified GiANT Leadership Coach - trusted by brands like Google, The US Air Force, Chick-fil-A, Pfizer, and more. Learn how they've helped over 500 coaches start and grow their business (even start

Creating Culture, Connection & Change for Teams How important is company culture in a productive workplace and what steps can you take to promote a healthy company culture? Our world has experienced and undergone times of transformational change that requires all of us to step outside of our past routines, look within and identify deep and meaningful ways to evolve and grow within the new corporate normal that stands before us. Melissa Lopez stepped in as CEO of Positive Adventures in February 2020, less than a month before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the world and created an incredible challenge for Positive Adventures (as a team-building and group-based experiential education company) to survive. With her background expertise in both the digital space as well as her executive leadership skills, Melissa was able to successfully pivot the company’s team building programs into the virtual space, and within less than two months, Positive Adventures was successfully offering virtual team building

Dr. Bob Nelson - Work Made Fun Gets Done!  Why is it so important to have fun at work? Shouldn't people be expected to work at work (and have fun on their own time)? What are the biggest obstacles for employees to have more fun at work?  Dr. Bob Nelson is considered the world’s leading authority on employee recognition & engagement. He is President of Nelson Motivation Inc., a management training/consulting company specializing in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs & systems. He’s worked with 80% of Fortune 500 as a Strategist for HR Issues. He has been a long-time collaborator & confidant for Dr. Ken Blanchard, “The One Minute Manager” and is currently a personal coach for Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, the world’s #1-ranked executive coach. He has presented on six continents; appears extensively in the national & international media including CBS’ 60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chi

 Visual Thinking is an old technology- think Cave paintings 30,000 BC in Altimira Spain  A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples’ definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. With more than a decade of experience as a facilitator, educator, and visual strategist, Nora has led transformations for some of the world’s biggest brands. And with ImageThink’s humble back-of-the-napkin origin 11 years ago, Nora helped evolve the nascent industry of visual strategy, growing a global multimillion-dollar business in the process. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired audiences at SXSW Interactive, WBENC, Watermark, and The Atlantic’s ‘What’s Next?’ Summit with her creative keynotes and workshops. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, INC., Entrepreneur, and on MSNBC, she leads a compelling conversation around the power of

Love a good “who done it?” Who doesn’t? And more so when it also involves gangsters, molls, and old Hollywood. That’s why author Stuart Sobel has spent the past 30 years interviewing, researching, analyzing, and fact-checking ‘Queen Bee’ and the Killing of “Bugsy” Siegel, which at 74 years is the oldest cold murder case in America. Now Sobel has the opinion of noted former mob attorney and three-time Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, who stated, “As far as I am personally concerned, 'QUEEN BEE and THE KILLING OF "BUGSY" SIEGEL' has provided us with the motive, the killer and a thorough analysis as to why the shooter of "Bugsy" Siegel was never caught during the shooter's lifetime; nor discovered any time thereafter. There is no logical reason why a case of this magnitude and continued worldwide public interest should remain in limbo.  However, as the law stands today, I do not see a procedure that would allow the legal system to close, as it should, and at 74 years, the oldest cold case i